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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Cent. Ferns^ t. i. 
Parish in Hook. 2 
F. B. I. t 303. 
Moulmein and Pegue, on trees 
Hook. Syn. FiL p 75. Bedd. 
5. Trichomanes muscoides. {Sw) Frond stalked, 1-3 inches 
long, by \-\ inch broad, linear-oblong to suborbicular, entire or 
variously lobed, 
spuiious venules 
copious ; sori 
1-8, terminal on 
the lobes, the 
tube sunk in the 
frond, the mouth 
free, dilated, but 
usually scarcely 
t w o - 1 i p p e d. 
Hook. Syn. FiL 
p. ^S- B^dd. F. 
B. I. t. 304. 
Northern In- 
dia ( received 
from Dyas) ; 
Khasya. 
(Also in tro- 
pical xAmerica 
and Africa, Poly- 
nesia, &c.) 
— Mr. Clarke 
TRICHOMANES PARVULUM. states that the 
{Poir.) typical form is 
not found in Northern India, but only the variety sublimba- 
tum, distinguished by having no trace of a marginal band, but in 
Griffith's specimen collected on the Khasya hills, this marginal band 
is more or less present in some fronds, and I do not think it can 
be separated as a ^variety. This species, as I understand it, is not 
